'Ice Highway' To Open Earth's Last Frontier 35
JayBonci writes "CNN is carrying a story on an Ice Highway to make it easier to access the South Pole. The 1,020 mile "highway" may be completed as soon as 2006. Because of the nature of the ever-shifting ice, maintenance is going to be difficult to say the least, but it will provide greater access to the region for supplies and scientists."
Now all they need is a sign... (Score:4, Funny)
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Or kilometers, depending on if you're non-American.
They should make a vehicle that runs on snow for down there. Some kind of "snowmobile." Yeah, that'd be good. Either that or penguin-powered. Too bad it's the wrong pole for polar bears - they'd be fun to ride. You know, except for the mauling and eating bit.
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All you need is a car that can run on french fries and your set!
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You're right. And they should also put "Dead end", or "No outlet" signs, since the only way out is by coming back the same road.
test link (Score:1)
There goes the neighborhood (Score:1)
Next Headline in Yahoo (Score:3, Interesting)
How appropriate.
As the road shifts. (Score:5, Interesting)
-Grump
The question is... (Score:3, Funny)
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So the next step is, what, condos? Sure, the commute to the Vally is a killer, but look at those prices!
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how usable will this be? (Score:3, Interesting)
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They could build the First City on an oil field and use that to run the lights to mine raw materials and to run the lights for the 6 months of darkness. ( I would recommend having their inde
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Interestingly, global warming is one possible culprit contributing to a recent problem: the weather "window" for winter roads is becoming more narrow. Bummer for the folks who live in places without alte
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Of interest is how the truckers must travel at a certain speed when traveling over lakes and rivers. Seems that the truck's presence deflects the ice in such a way that creates pressure waves in the water underneath, such that if the truck approaches the shore too quickly, the pressure wave can actually blo
Errrm. Antarctica last frontier of Earth? (Score:3, Interesting)
It's already Trashed (Score:3, Interesting)
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Hm... (Score:4, Funny)
Tux (Score:1)
Good news for that stranded pilot... (Score:2)
The best thing about this road (Score:3, Funny)
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Dupe (Score:3, Informative)
Posted by michael on Friday January 24, @10:21PM
from the south-pole-highway-patrol-now-hiring dept.
tetrad writes "The New Scientist magazine reports [newscientist.com] that the US is building a road to the South Pole. The "highway" would cross the Ross Ice Shelf and then pass through the Transantarctic Mountains (map here [southpolestation.com]). Convoys of tractors will be the only traffic on the road, bringing fuel and heavy equipment to the South Pole, as well as enabling the installation of a $250M fibre-optic communications cable [bbc.co.uk] (discussed previously [slashdot.org])."
If this TV show adds anything to the story above (which I rather doubt), apologies.
airplanes? (Score:1)
A question (Score:2, Funny)